When I was a little girl, I learned how to play the recorder in school.  We had a little recorder band going, and we played at Christmas concerts and school plays. 

Last week, I got our Jake a sporano recorder.  He's been wanting to learn how to play something, and I thought that the recorder would be a good place to start.  (His brother is learning how to play the harmonica, his sister's learning how to play my guitar, and their dad has voiced an interest in learning to play bass guitar..we could have a family band by the time we 're all done!)

His recorder came in the mail on Monday, and I started his first lesson Monday afternoon.  We started out with basic fingering and how to breathe properly.  Once he had had enough for the day, I took his recored and started playing.

I forgot how much I knew.  I haven't played for 25 years, but songs were literally flying out...and they weren't even songs that I had learned to play as a child.  I just played .....and somehow knew what notes needed to come next.   I played 'Amazing Grace', 'Abide With Me', 'Auld Lang Syne', 'Let Freedom Ring', 'America the Beautiful', 'Good King Wenceslas', 'The First Noel' and more...they just came to me.  I didn't look at sheet music, or even a fingering chart...I just played them by ear. 

I'm loving it!  I'm really having fun with it, so much so that I'm ordering my own soprano recorder AND a penny whistle too.  I've always wanted to play a penny whistle, and from what I can see they're not that much different to the recorder.  If I have this natural ability with the recorder hopefully I can carry that over to the whistle too.

I feel like a real Rennaisance chick right now.....